Press Release
Mian Wei Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Para Public Outdoor Garden Chair in Furniture Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Mian Wei for furniture design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Para Public Outdoor Garden Chair by Mian Wei has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Para Public Outdoor Garden Chair
Para is a set of public outdoor chairs designed to provide restrained flexibility in outdoor settings. A set of chairs that has a uniquely symmetrical form and totally deviates from the inherent visual balance of conventional chair design Inspired by simple seesaw shape, this set of outdoor chairs is bold, modern and welcomes interaction. Both with a heavy weighted bottom, Para A supports 360 rotation around its base, and Para B supports bidirectional flipping.
About Mian Wei
Mian Wei is an awards wining designer and multimedia artist currently based in Boston United States. His work focuses mainly on industrial design, human interface, and corporate identity. He believes the inside of a product is as important as the outside, that a well designed object should have a balance between structure and form. Originally from China, Mian Wei studied industrial design in Rhode Island School of Design in US. The first commercial product he lead designed won a iF design award in 2019.
Award Record
With this recognition, Mian Wei is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2018 - 2019 to 2019 - 2020 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Furniture Design Award
The A' Furniture Design Award is an international furniture competition recognizing good furniture designs by best furniture designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture designers, product designers, industrial design studios and furniture brands from all countries. Entries typically include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. Awarded furniture designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/furniture
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/103314
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/103314
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!103314
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/237197
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://mian-wei.com/#/para/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Para Public Outdoor Garden Chair
- Function
- Public Outdoor Garden Chair
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Light Gray, Silver, Dark Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Mian Wei
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #103314
Credits
- Image Credits
- Mian Wei
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Para is a set of public outdoor chairs with extremely low center of gravity. Most public outdoor furniture is either fixed or heavily weighted and doesn't have any adjustability. With its unique weight distribution, Para is designed to provide restrained mobility in flexible outdoor settings. The heavier bottom makes it easier to rotate and flip to user preferable positions.
- Inspiration
- The designer wanted to create a set of chairs with a unique visual symmetry that totally deviates from the inherent traditional form of conventional chair design by shifting the center of focus, and bring fun interaction and freedom into mundane public outdoor seating. Inspired by simple seesaw shape, and the structure of a roly-poly, this set of outdoor chairs is bold, modern and welcomes interaction. The detail form and curvature were inspired by pollen and flying seeds
- Research
- Research went into finding the optimal shape and balance for ergonomics and its unique symmetrical structure.
- Challenge
- The challenge was to create a set of outdoor park chairs that is modern and bold, and would have a degree of controlled flexibility for adjustable sitting and viewing direction.
- Realization and Technology
- Bent polycarbonate sheets supported by steel and polyethylene legs. Filled with heavy fillings to increase weight.
- Operation and Interaction
- Both with a heavy weighted bottom, Para A supports 360 rotation around its base, and Para B supports bidirectional flipping. Para brings bold playfulness to public settings. With Para A, the rotation makes flexible communal organization and communication effortless with heavy public furniture. With Para B, a line of public chairs can be rearranged to either direction easily. With PARA outdoor chairs you can choose and change your sitting direction freely, and get a new view of the park everyday.
- Project Duration and Location
- Spring 2020 release, USA, project period Jan - Feb 2020
- Specifications
- 620 mm x 1200 mm x 820 mm
- Keywords
- Chair, Outdoor, Public, Furniture, Park, Garden, Transparent
